🚨 Virgil van Dijk on the controversy during the Egypt vs Argentina game:
🗣️: “I watched the game and, honestly, all I could do was laugh because it brought back memories from the 2022 World Cup. We went through something very similar, but back then it felt like we were the only ones talking about it.
This time, the Egypt players and their coach spoke out immediately, and I’m actually glad they did. Sometimes people only pay attention when more voices are involved.
Whether you support Egypt or Argentina doesn’t matter. Football should always be decided by what happens on the pitch, not by controversies that leave everyone questioning the result. Hopefully this opens people’s eyes because the whole football world saw what happened.”
Quiero que le deis la máxima difusión posible al mayor ROBO de Argentina de la historia.
4 minutos y 21 segundos de vergüenza.
QUE VEA TODO EL MUNDO COMO AYUDAN A LOS ARGENTINOS.
⛔️The Legend of English Football Alan Shearer:
“When the referee goes back to VAR for Egypt's goal and cancels it due to an interference at the start of the play, but doesn't go back to VAR for Argentina's winning goal despite two interferences at the start of the play... then we're watching a "theater" and not a football match.‼️
If FIFA wants to reward the World Cup to Messi, then let them give him the title right now and the players from the other teams can go home ‼️”
NÚMEROS DA POLÊMICA EM ARGENTINA 🇦🇷 x EGITO 🇪🇬!
A Argentina cometeu 13 faltas durante a partida, enquanto o Egito fez 11.
Mas a diferença nos cartões chamou atenção:
🇦🇷 Argentina:
❌ 0 cartões aplicados
🇪🇬 Egito:
🟨 4 cartões amarelos para jogadores
🟨 1 cartão amarelo para a delegação
🟥 1 cartão vermelho para delegação
🚨José Mourinho on Egypt after their World Cup elimination:
🗣️ Reporter: “José, did Egypt simply come up short against Argentina?”
🗣️ José Mourinho:
“No. I don’t think Egypt came up short because of effort.
I watched Mohamed Salah. I watched Omar Marmoush. I watched every Egyptian player on that pitch. They never stopped fighting. They ran, they pressed, they believed until the very end. Sometimes football rewards courage… tonight, I don’t think it did.
What I saw was a team that gave everything but left the stadium with nothing. The players never gave up. The supporters never stopped singing. But some nights, it feels like the football gods decide to look the other way.
People will speak about Argentina’s comeback, and they deserve credit for believing. But Egypt have every reason to be proud of themselves. They stood toe-to-toe with one of the biggest football nations in the world and made them suffer for every minute.
When I look at Egypt tonight, I don’t see failures.
I see warriors.
And sometimes, even warriors lose because the devils decide the story should end differently.
🚨 José Mourinho on Argentina vs. Egypt:
“This is daylight robbery. It’s a shame what football is becoming. How do you let the play continue, allow the goal to be scored, and only then decide to go back and cancel it? If there was a foul, stop the game immediately. Don’t wait until after the goal.
Then I ask another question—why wasn’t Argentina’s first goal reviewed with the same attention when it looked very close to offside? Why was every incident involving Argentina checked, while Egypt didn’t seem to get the same treatment?
VAR is supposed to bring fairness, not confusion. Today, it looked like every important decision went in Argentina’s favour. Football deserves better.”
🚨 🎙️Ronaldo Nazário on the controversial refereeing in Argentina vs Egypt;
Interviewer: Ronaldo, what did you make of that dramatic comeback by Argentina today?
Ronaldo Nazário: Look, Argentina are a very strong team with real champions’ mentality. To come back from 2-0 down like that shows quality and character — no doubt about it. But if we’re being honest, the refereeing had a big influence on how this game unfolded.
If it was a different team playing against Egypt today, ask yourself if those decisions could have been different. Be honest with yourself and that’s all you need to know.
Let’s go through them one by one. First, Egypt score on the counter — Zico finishes it brilliantly after Salah’s work. They celebrate, the momentum is with them, and then VAR steps in and disallows it for a so-called foul in the build-up. A soft little challenge on Martínez, nothing clear and obvious. In most games, that goal stands. Tonight it didn’t.
Then the penalty awarded to Argentina. Marginal contact at best. You see those incidents week in, week out and they’re waved away. Here it was given. Messi missed it, okay, but the decision itself shifted the psychological balance when Egypt were in control.
And it wasn’t just those two. Throughout the match, the consistency wasn’t there — fouls called one way, advantage not played at key moments, little things that add up. Egypt were fighting for something historic. They went 2-0 up with real quality and heart. With fair, consistent officiating, this match could easily have gone either way — and without all the controversy afterwards.
Argentina showed they can win ugly, but football deserves better. The big calls shouldn’t feel like they’re protecting one side. Respect to Egypt — they played a great game and pushed the champions all the way.
Interviewer: Strong words…
Ronaldo Nazário: I say what I see. That’s it.
🚨 Peter Drury Breaks Silence: Questionable Calls, Cancelled Goals & FIFA Favouritism – Has Football Become a Scripted Show?
🗣Peter Drury
“After years spent analyzing football matches and commentating on the game at the highest level, I can honestly say that what we witnessed today between Argentina and Egypt was unlike anything I’ve seen in my entire career.
How that was awarded as a penalty remains a complete mystery. The contact, if any, looked minimal at best, yet the decision stood. It’s becoming harder and harder to watch the sport without feeling that the beautiful game is slowly turning into something of a joke for millions of fans around the world. The officiating has been strangely “clean” almost suspiciously so yet it leaves serious questions about consistency and impartiality.
Then there was Egypt’s goal, ruled out for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear. Why was it disallowed? In the same match, when Argentina scored their decisive goal, there appeared to be a clear foul in the build-up that neither the referee nor VAR chose to review properly. These are the moments that make supporters feel the outcome is no longer decided purely on the pitch.
There’s a growing narrative out there and it’s hard to ignore that Lionel Messi is being protected as FIFA’s golden boy. With Cristiano Ronaldo no longer part of the international scene, some believe the powers that be are determined to keep Messi’s story alive for as long as possible because his presence still drives massive global interest and viewing figures. Whether that’s true or not, the pattern of decisions in key moments only fuels that conversation.
passion, and the unpredictable nature of who wins on any given day. But when decisions repeatedly go one way, when valid goals are chalked off and questionable ones are given, and when VAR seems to miss obvious incidents, it starts to feel like something else is at play. The game deserves better. Fans deserve transparency, consistency, and the simple belief that the result is earned not influenced.
These are the moments that test our love for the sport. And right now, that love is being stretched thin.“
🚨🗣️New: Pepe on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:
“Today the whole world watched the same match.
Egypt scored a perfectly good goal, celebrated it, earned it, and then VAR suddenly turned into a time machine. They went so far back looking for a reason to disallow it that I thought they were reviewing the pyramids being built.
That is my first question.
If VAR can travel that far into the past to cancel Egypt’s goal, why could it not travel five seconds into the future when Egypt were screaming for penalties?
Funny, no? One team gets forensic investigation. The other gets silence.
Egypt were leading. Egypt were controlling the game. Egypt were making Argentina uncomfortable. Then came the intervention that changed everything.
The disallowed goal.
The moment that shifted the entire momentum of the match.
And after that? Two penalty appeals. Two. Not one. Two opportunities for the officials to show consistency.
Nothing. No urgency. No transparency. No explanation that convinced anybody.
Then Argentina go down the other end and score the winner.
Football is a game of moments. The referee’s team decided which moments deserved attention and which moments deserved to disappear.
People tell me Argentina showed champion mentality. I agree.
But champion mentality and controversial officiating are not mutually exclusive things, Both can exist at the same time. What I cannot accept is the inconsistency.
When Egypt scored, VAR searched every grain of sand in the desert looking for a foul.
When Egypt asked for penalties, suddenly everybody became blind. That is why the Egyptian bench exploded. That is why cards were flying everywhere. That is why millions of fans left the stadium angry instead of simply disappointed.
Because losing to Argentina is one thing. Feeling like the rules changed depending on who benefited is another.
And this is what football fans hate the most. Not defeat. Not mistakes. Selective scrutiny.
The feeling that one decision was examined with a microscope while another was viewed from outer space.
Maybe Argentina would still have won. Maybe they would not. We will never know. Because the game was not allowed to reach its natural conclusion.
Instead, Egypt leave the World Cup with questions.
Questions about the disallowed goal, Questions about the ignored penalty appeals, Questions about consistency, Questions about why VAR looked like a sword against one team and a shield for another.
And when football leaves people talking more about the officials than the players, that is not a victory for the sport.
That is a failure.
Today Egypt lost 3-2 on the scoreboard.
But the debate over what really happened will win headlines for much longer than Argentina’s comeback.”
🚨🎙️| Zlatan Ibrahimović on Argentina eliminating Egypt from the World Cup:
🗣️“I’m a big fan of Messi, but let’s be real for once. This feels like pure robbery. Every controversial decision somehow goes Argentina’s way. FIFA keeps acting like they want Messi to lift every trophy possible. At this point, it’s becoming too obvious. Egypt deserved more from that game, but when the biggest football organization in the world has its favorite, what can you do?”
🚨🗣| Roy Kean on Egypt vs Argentina match:
"I think Egypt could've won this game if the referee calls were correct, Egypt second goal should've stood, and Argentina third goal was initially a foul on Salah which a a similar foul to Martinez's that got Egypt second goal disallowed, they lost to the referee."
🚨Paul Scholes on Mo Salah and Egypt being eliminated by Argentina.
🗣️“This is the greatest robbery in football history I’ve ever witnessed, from the beginning of the game till the end there wasn’t any favorable decision for the Egyptian national team. You don’t have to bring in excuses for such controversial decisions in the end.”
“It’s sad and you can see how emotional and heartbreaking the fans look after the game, it’s not what we expected from the game today. A false penalty and many other decisions that isn’t meant to be taken, we just have to admit the fact that it was rigged and there’s nothing we can do about this.”
“It’s Lionel Messi and we all know why this happened today against the Egyptian team, this wasn’t how football is supposed to be played but they ruin everything with their favorite decisions.”
🚨🚨 Thierry Henry blasts Argentina’s “robbery” of Egypt & questions referee nationality for france game:
“Egypt wasn’t robbed like this since the British Museum took its artefacts. I stan Messi but let’s be truthful. VAR didn’t review two clear fouls inside the Argentinian box before Enzo Fernández’s goal. Why? A foul on Martínez overturned Egypt’s second goal. Why does the treatment have to be so one-sided? This is completely unfair.
FIFA, be ashamed. Be genuinely ashamed. This is robbery. Egypt have been robbed. Egypt’s goal was overturned from a VAR call across the field. Egypt didn’t get a penalty when the defender tripped Salah with zero ball contact in the penalty box, leading to an Argentina goal. And this guy slapped him in the face and received no card or warning from the ref.
Meanwhile, Egypt breathe on Argentina and it’s a foul.Absolutely shameful match.Mostafa Ziko said the tournament was rigged — they didn’t need anything else. The referee was unfair, unfair, unfair, unfair.Gianni Infantino and the rest of FIFA’s decision-makers should be ashamed of themselves. Deeply ashamed. Because what we witnessed tonight wasn’t football. It was a rigged spectacle. And the world saw it.”